20 Most Recent Panasonic Toughbook CF-51 Notebook - Page 3 Questions & Answers

Perhaps this will help: http://www.panasonic.com/business/toughbook/computer-support-faqs-51.asp

Perhaps it's the Inverter? If you can see a "ghost image" it's not the ribbon cable in the rear of the monitor. Does your laptop have a tiny switch the turns the screen on and off when you open and close the laptop lid. Sometimes it's found near the hinges and can get stuck with dust, dirt, or damaged. Take a look at this for a verification of the Inverter, it's not your model, but it may help: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Yi6GNFcP3w

You're going to need the drivers for the gestures installed, you can find this on their website under support and drivers. It's pretty much the driver for the touch pad, then you can enable gestures by opening the GUI on for the program and enabling "gestures"

Replace screen maybe available from these WEB sites. LCD screens and Inverters www.lcdparts.net http://www.yallstore.com

Sounds like you will need to download the Network drives. I suggest you go to the devices manufacture (Dell,HP etc) and download the Network drives. If this is the only PC you have you will have to get a flashdrive and download the drives from a second PC. Once you have the drivers on the flash drive you will be able to run them on the XP machine. Good Luck!

Run hard drive diagnostics: http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=287 (or http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic28744.html)Make sure, you select tool, which is appropriate for the brand of your hard drive.Depending on the program, itll create bootable floppy, or bootable CD.If downloaded file is of .iso type, use ImgBurn: http://www.imgburn.com/ to burn .iso file to a CD (select "Write image file to disc" option), and make the CD bootable.

You could also try a Live Linux like Knoppix Live from here:- http://www.knoppix.net/get.php, download the Free ISO using a Torrent, burn it to a CD then run that it will load into Ram and then ith all the software in the CD you can examine the hard drive

hope this helps

Which Password? Bios Password? Hard Drive Password? Windows Welcome Screen User Logon Password?Which Operating System? Windows XP? Windows Vista? Windows 7?Shine a flashlight on the dark screen to see if you barelysee the icons on the desktop. If so, then the LCD Inverter is bad. Plug in an external monitor and see if the display shows up on it. It can beany kind of monitor even the old big fat crt monitors as long as it has a vgacable to connect to your computer's vga port. If so that proves yourvideo card is ok. The video will show on most systems when you rebootwithout you having to do anything. Some systems will require you to hit the FN(Function key) + F1 thru F12. Hold down the FN key then hit the correctkey for displaying on the monitor (F1 thru F12). The correct key willnormally have CRT/LCD on it or it will have the icon of a display. If you see no icons by shinning a flash light and the external monitor works,then your screen is bad. If you see no icons by shinning the flash lightand nothing shows on the external monitor, then most likely your video card isbad.

Main User Password? I'm assuming you mean the Windows Logon Password. Hopefully it's not the Admin Password.Shine a flashlight on the dark screen to see if you barelysee the icons on the desktop. If so, then the LCD Inverter is bad. Plug in an external monitor and see if the display shows up on it. It can beany kind of monitor even the old big fat crt monitors as long as it has a vgacable to connect to your computer's vga port. If so that proves yourvideo card is ok. The video will show on most systems when you rebootwithout you having to do anything. Some systems will require you to hit the FN(Function key) + F1 thru F12. Hold down the FN key then hit the correctkey for displaying on the monitor (F1 thru F12). The correct key willnormally have CRT/LCD on it or it will have the icon of a display. If you see no icons by shinning a flash light and the external monitor works,then your screen is bad. If you see no icons by shinning the flash lightand nothing shows on the external monitor, then most likely your video card isbad.

toughbook drivers go with cpu such as Pentium 4. Ebay people sells driver disk.

You can go to Windows Update and download any language pack you wish to use for your notebook. John

You can download the XP drivers from the panasonic site. CF-51 got many flavors and be sure that your model numbers are at hand when you retrieve the factory installed drivers.

Delete all SigmaTel drivers from the registry hardware section. This would help reinstall the correct driver. The presence of these wrong registry values prevent successful installation of the factory drivers.

I have installed se7en, vista and XP successfully. The sound is really problematic since Dell and Gateway laptops use similar sound chips and offers drivers on the net... but they don't work at all. The Gateway driver seems to install perfectly from device manager report, but only the mic works & no sound.

What I do is install the factory provided drivers in XP compatible mode and then use windows update to download the latest SigmaTel drivers (se7en pre-beta). Windows got a more compatible driver but it can only install over the original since the chips cannot be recognized.